Up to one million members of the Uyghur ethnic minority have been held in so-called re-education camps in China's northwestern Xinjiang province for their expression of Muslim culture, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said Thursday.

Revolutionary courts in Iran have sentenced at least 208 members of a minority Shia Muslim mystic sect known as Dervishes since May, according to a report by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Wednesday.

United Nations member states should partner with Myanmar to ensure that its efforts to bring perpetrators of human rights abuses to justice comply with international law, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a Security Council meeting on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday accused Budapest of creating a "parallel reality" in the Ukrainian-Hungarian relations, stressing that Kiev could not sacrifice its interests while building relationship with other states.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar has found gross human rights violations and abuses committed by Myanmar's military in the Rakhine state, and urges to investigate and prosecute senior military officials, the mission said in a press release on Monday.